Knitting for Olive Pure Silk

Our Pure Silk is made of 100% cruelty-free bourette silk. Bourette silk is a waste product created during silk processing and consists of small and short silk fibers. Instead of throwing these waste fibers away, they are used in the production of a new silk product. The short fibers lead to a more matt and rustic looking yarn than other types of silk products that are made from the longer silk threads. The silk used in our yarn is 100% cruelty-free.
Silk is made of silk threads that come from silk worm’s cocoons. The cocoons are made of one single very, very long thread. In conventional silk production the cocoons are boiled, leaving the silk worms to die. This way the long intact silk thread can be used. Our cruelty-free silk is made of silk threads from broken cocoons, where the silk worms have evolved into moths and escaped from the cocoon. The broken cocoon is now many short pieces of silk thread. These short silk fibers are made into yarn. This is a very time consuming process and the final result is less smooth than other silk, because long silk threads make a more smooth final silk product.
 
Quality: 100% cruelty-free silk
Needle size: 3 mm / US2.5
Meterage: 250 m [273 yd] / 50 g [1.8 oz], fingering-weight yarn
Gauge: 28 stitches and 38 rows = 10 cm [4”] in stockinette stitch with3 mm / US2.5 needles
Washing advice: We recommend handwash